Accredited Council for Independent Colleges and Schools Department of Education Extends Deadline to Respond to ACICS Petition for Continued Recognition On July 30, the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS) received notification from the Department of Education that it will extend the deadline to respond to ACICS’s petition […]
San Diego Union Tribune by Gary Robbins Coleman University, a small San Diego school that opened in the early 1960s to train workers for the burgeoning computer and information technology industries, is closing due to accreditation and financial problems. The closure, which will take affect on August 5th, comes with […]
Community College Daily by Mathew Dembicki Both sides of the aisle in Congress champion the value of apprenticeships in developing skilled workers for available jobs. But the common ground ends there: Democrats prefer government-recognized registered apprenticeships, while Republicans lean toward industry-recognized apprenticeships, which include fewer rules and regulations. The Senate […]
Education Dive Dive Brief: Income share agreements, where institutions help students pay for tuition so long as the borrower gives up a certain percentage of income following graduation to pay back the costs, are gaining traction within the industry. Purdue University led the trend in 2016, with its “Back A Boiler” […]
Inside Higher Ed by Andrea Kreighbaum The Trump administration says it wants more innovation in higher education. And it believes rewriting the rules for college accrediting agencies is the best way to encourage innovation. In an exclusive interview with Inside Higher Ed, the administration’s top higher education official described the philosophy […]
Chronicle of Higher Education by Andy Thomason The Education Department plans to repeal the gainful-employment rule, which sought to punish higher-education programs whose graduates bear a high level of student-loan debt, according to The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.Experts had predicted that the education secretary, Betsy DeVos, aimed to weaken […]
Inside Higher Ed by Doug Lederman The Education Department plans to eliminate rather than revise Obama-era rules that required for-profit and vocational programs to prove that they are preparing graduates for gainful employment, according to a memorandum obtained by The New York Times. A decision to pull the plug on the […]
Inside Higher Ed by Scott Jaschik A new survey of the U.S. public suggests continued problems regarding the image of higher education — and negative perceptions are not limited to Republicans. A solid majority of all adults (61 percent) believe that higher education is headed in the wrong direction, according to a […]
Career Education Colleges and Universities All 17 Democrats on the Committee on Education and the Workforce today unveiled the Aim Higher Act—a reflection of the House Democrats’ vision for reauthorization of the Higher Education Act. Rep. Bobby Scott (D-VA), the senior ranking Democrat on the Committee, called the proposal an […]
Encoura.org by Clint Raine As summer heats up and colleges and universities combat summer melt, it’s time to face the reality that chances of reauthorizing the Higher Education Act (HEA) in 2018, and possibly even 2019, have also melted away. At the Eduventures Summit in June, Inside Higher Ed’s Doug Lederman […]